Category Archives: Israel
PKK opposition to Zionism (2017 statement from a founding member)
PKK founding member Mustafa Karasu wrote in 2017 (just to make decades of policy totally clear): Since the emergence of the PKK, we have been against Zionism. We compared the genocide of the Kurds in Turkey with Israeli Zionism and … Continue reading
Israel: world’s only apartheid state today?
That’s certainly what South Africa’s representative told the UN in 2018: VIDEO: South Africa’s rep at the @UN_HRC says Israel is the ‘only state in the world that can be described as an apartheid state’. #UPR29 #HumanRights pic.twitter.com/nw2u39eALH — Media … Continue reading
Rojava: Chapter 1B
Palestine, Zionist Colonialism, and Arab Reaction My essay “Gaza: A Capitalist Genocide”[1] discusses the violent nationalism of Zionism in greater depth, but in this section my main aim is to point out the significant role that Israel played in … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Colonialism, Imperialism, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Syria
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The Fears of the Powerful and the Hopes of the Peaceful
After two decades of cruising along the contaminated economic canals built by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, the Labour Party’s failure to win the 2015 election proved quite definitively that it had no fuel left (even with the oil stolen … Continue reading
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Tagged Corbyn4Labour, Corbyn4Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Labour Leadership, Labour Party
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Gaza: A Capitalist Genocide (Key Points)
[Note: This essay was written from a standpoint that seeks to decrease (and ultimately destroy) all discrimination (based on ethnicity, religion, or other factors) through the dissemination of information and reasoned analysis. Zionism is not synonymous with Judaism. Islamism is … Continue reading
Posted in Assassination, Autonomy, Bourgeois Democracy, capitalism, Democracy, dignity, Exploitation, Gaza, Imperialism, Impunity, independence, Injustice, International Relations, Israel, Neoliberalism, Oppression, Palestine, politics, rebellion, revolution, The Media, UK, USA, War
Tagged Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Zionism
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Gaza: “A Ceasefire Is Not Enough”
(Footnote to “Gaza: A Capitalist Genocide” – https://ososabiouk.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/gaza-a-capitalist-genocide-essay/) An apparently ‘permanent’ ceasefire has been agreed to by Israeli and Gazan representatives. This agreement will meet several of the demands made by Hamas in the middle of July, seeing Gaza’s fishing … Continue reading
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Tagged Apartheid, Capitalism, Fascism, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Racism, Segregation, Zionism
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For Gaza (Poem)
Gaza is clearly an open-air prison, A side effect of a Zionist vision, Resistance is met with military might, As colonisers expect no-one to fight, Children on a beach have been bombed to bits, … Continue reading
Gaza: A Capitalist Genocide (Essay)
[Note: This essay was written from a standpoint that seeks to decrease (and ultimately destroy) all discrimination (based on ethnicity, religion, or other factors) through the dissemination of information and reasoned analysis. Zionism is not synonymous with Judaism. Islamism is … Continue reading
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The Need for Empathy in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
During Israel’s recent invasion of Gaza, over one thousand Palestinians have died, and the UN says three quarters of the dead have been civilians. UNICEF, meanwhile, affirms that at least 30 percent have been children. The Israeli State claims that … Continue reading
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Tagged Colonialism, Compassion, Empathy, Gaza, Hamas, IDF, Israel, Massacre, Palestine, Palestinians, Resistance, Solidarity, Understanding
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India, the International Community, and Gaza
The nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of India has recently been criticised for its role as a “spectator” in the Israeli attack on Gaza. Opposition parties even “walked out of the upper house of parliament” when the BJP “refused … Continue reading
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Tagged BJP, Colonialism, Gaza, Genocide, India, Israel, Kashmir, Pakistan, Palestine, Solidarity
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Resistance Is Fertile 